VC blockchain investments amount to $300 million in H1 2016: Juniper Research
Aug 16, 2016 10:25 am UTC| Digital Currency
In a new research report, Juniper Research has stated that in the first 6 months of this year, the total value of Venture Capital (VC) investment into blockchain technologies and bitcoin companies was $290 million, with...
Blockstream welcomes new members to its blockchain developer team
Aug 16, 2016 06:02 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain-based firm Blockstream, has announced the recruitment of various new talented people in the blockchain industry, to its technical team. The announcement came, following the companys acquisition of...
Ethereum Classic community announces code of principles for its chain
Aug 16, 2016 05:58 am UTC| Digital Currency
Following recent reports of attempts to dump over 7 million ETC tokens by the White Hat team, the Ethereum Classic community has released its Declaration of Independence in which it lists its grievances and lays out the...
Blockchain technology has potential to live up to the hype: WEF
Aug 15, 2016 05:37 am UTC| Digital Currency
The World Economic Forum has released a new report that looks at the impact of implementing distributed ledger technology 9DLT) across nine sectors of financial services. Prepared in collaboration with Deloitte, the...
Australian firm Power Ledger tests blockchain for peer-to-peer solar electricity trading
Aug 12, 2016 13:19 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Perth-based company Power Ledger has announced that it will start testing a blockchain technology-based system that will allow people in Perth and south-west to buy, sell or swap excess solar electricity with anyone...
90 pct believe blockchain technology to alter payment landscape by 2025: EPC poll
Aug 12, 2016 07:26 am UTC| Digital Currency
The European Payments Council (EPC), an international not-for-profit association that aims to support and promote European payments integration and development, has released the results of its poll on the impact of...
Swirlds releases SDK for hashgraph distributed consensus platform
Aug 12, 2016 06:50 am UTC| Digital Currency
Swirlds, a software platform designed to build fully-distributed applications that harness the power of the cloud without servers, has released the Software Development Kit (SDK) for thehashgraph distributed consensus...
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